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Harvard sentences!
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Pardon the unicode:
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├───────────────┤ One day when playing with
│╭─────────────╮│ Iridium, I overheard the
││ Iridium ││ most peculiar message:
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│╰─────────────╯│ " The hog crawled under
│═══════════════│ the high fence. Move the
├───────────────┤ var over the hot fire "
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│ ___ ___ ___ │ It sounded like something
│[ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]│ straight out of a bond movie!
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Here is the audio sample:
harvard_stencences.mp3
After some investigation, it turns out these are called
'harvard sentences' and are designed to be phonetically
balanced and used in testing of telcom systems.
Ah that makes complete sense now. - Alas, not 007.
When talking about this on sdf's #gopher channel,
cat from baud.baby
shared a phone number that gives an endless stream
of these: (858) 651-5050
Next time you find yourself in need for some
phonetically balanced goodness, you can give that one
a ring!
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